All You Must Know About Star Trek: Discovery Season 2

After a primary season that centered on the Federation–Klingon Struggle, Star Trek: Discovery — the most recent Trek sequence set a decade earlier than the occasions of the unique 1966-69 sequence — returns subsequent week for a second season that can have far fewer Klingon-only scenes, because the present strikes in the direction of what government producer Aaron Harberts described as “extra away missions, newer planets, and tales which may fall a little bit bit extra right into a framework of allegory that folks like to get from Trek”. Star Trek: Discovery season 2 episode 1 will start the place we left off with the arrival of the usEnterprise for a selected mission, which is able to then kick off the bigger story that includes a youthful Spock in some capability. Season 2 can be extra episodic, co-creator and showrunner Alex Kurtzman has stated, with every episode having a central character or query that ties into the season-long story.

From premiere date, variety of episodes, synopsis, solid, trailer, and to the present’s future, this is the whole lot you might want to learn about Star Trek: Discovery season 2.

Star Trek: Discovery season 2 launch date

The second season of Star Trek: Discovery will premiere Thursday, January 17, 2019 on CBS All Entry within the US, and Area and Crave in Canada. Netflix will carry it in 188 nations, together with India, beginning Friday, January 18, 2019.

Star Trek: Discovery season 2 episodes

There’s a complete of 14 episodes in Star Trek: Discovery season 2. Episodes will air weekly Thursdays within the US and Canada, which can be made obtainable inside 24 hours on Netflix globally in different nations. Although it has not been confirmed, Star Trek: Discovery season 2 is anticipated to make use of a two-part launch technique like season 1, with a brief hiatus in between.

Star Trek: Discovery season 2 synopsis

“After answering a misery sign from the usS. Enterprise, season two of Star Trek: Discovery finds the crew of the usS. Discovery becoming a member of forces with Captain Christopher Pike on a brand new mission to analyze seven mysterious pink alerts and the looks of an unknown being known as the Crimson Angel. Whereas the crew should work collectively to unravel their that means and origin, Michael Burnham is pressured to face her previous with the return of her estranged brother, Spock.”

Star Trek: Discovery season 2 solid

The primary solid members for Star Trek: Discovery season 2 embrace Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced as Michael Burnham, the present’s protagonist and science specialist on USS Discovery; Doug Jones as Saru, the primary Kelpien — a brand new species created for Discovery — to serve within the Starfleet, who’s the usDiscovery’s first officer; and Shazad Latif as Ash Tyler, the chief of safety on USS Discovery who seems to be a Klingon named Voq who underwent surgical procedure to turn out to be human.

There’s Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets, the chief engineer aboard the usDiscovery who’s additionally the primary overtly homosexual character in a Trek sequence; Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tully, a Starfleet cadet in her last yr; and Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber, the usDiscovery’s medical officer and Stamets’ love curiosity, who died within the first season however returns within the second, in some way. Becoming a member of them in the principle solid is Anson Mount as Christopher Pike, the captain of the usEnterprise (earlier than Kirk), who will take non permanent command of the usDiscovery in season 2.

Past that, Tig Notaro could have a recurring function as Jet Reno, the chief engineer of the usHiawatha. Returning visitor stars for Discovery season 2 embrace Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou, Mary Chieffo as L’Rell, and James Frain as Sarek. There are a number of new visitor stars as nicely: Alan van Sprang as Leland, Rebecca Romjin as Quantity One, David Benjamin Tomlinson as a Saurian named Linus, Rachael Ancheril as Lt. Nhan, Sean Connolly Affleck as Lt. Connolly, and naturally, Ethan Peck as a youthful Spock. Martin-Inexperienced’s real-life husband, Kenric Inexperienced, additionally has an undisclosed function.

Star Trek: Discovery season 2 trailer

CBS launched the primary trailer for Star Trek: Discovery season 2 again in July on the 2018 San Diego Comedian-Con, which launched Mount’s Captain Pike, a brand new risk within the galaxy, Notaro’s Reno, and Tomlinson’s Linus. It arrange the plotline of Burnham coming to the help of her foster brother Spock.

We acquired a for much longer, extra detailed trailer afterwards in October, which got here with the primary have a look at Peck’s younger Spock. It additionally featured Burnham’s mom, the mirror-universe model of Philippa Georgiou, and tons of motion.

CBS has launched a few different spots as nicely, however these are geoblocked for everybody exterior the US.

Star Trek: Discovery season 2 overview

CBS and Netflix are giving critics entry to the primary three episodes of the 14-episode season 2. Most evaluations, together with ours, can be up someday subsequent week, forward of the present’s Thursday premiere.

Methods to watch Star Trek: Discovery season 2 on-line

If you happen to’re within the US, Discovery season 2 is barely obtainable on-line — CBS All Entry is a streaming service. These up in Canada can stream it on Crave. Everybody else all over the world, together with these of us in India, can discover Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix. It is fairly easy, actually.

I heard Star Trek TV is increasing. What else can I sit up for?

Again in July at Comedian-Con, CBS introduced a sequence of mini-episodes known as Quick Treks, which then started airing in October. 4 of these, “Runaway”, “Calypso”, “The Brightest Star”, and “The Escape Artist” have been launched in complete. Sadly, CBS and Netflix did not work on a distribution deal, so they don’t seem to be obtainable exterior the US.

When Star Trek: Discovery returns with season 2 subsequent week, we’ll (probably) additionally get the after-show After Trek, which is fortunately on Netflix. CBS stated in June that it was being “reimagined” however would “proceed to have all of the fan-driven components that Star Trek: Discovery viewers loved [in season 1] and extra”.

Past these, CBS is growing a number of different Trek TV tasks. There’s one that can carry again Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc-Picard from Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology, airing later this yr. Rick and Morty head author Mike McMahan is engaged on an grownup animated comedy sequence known as Decrease Decks. There can be a second kids-focused animated sequence, the younger-skewing Starfleet Academy sequence from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and a Discovery spin-off centred on Yeoh’s Georgiou.